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title: בִּרְיָה — food · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בִּרְיָה (1279), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: food. BDB 1906: n.f. food. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בִּרְיָה

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«בִּרְיָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **food** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 1279 · **BDB:** בִּרְיָה

### Glosses

food (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

food [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1279/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. food [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1279/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. food 2 S 13:5, 7, 10; Ez 34:20 v. בָּרִיא.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בִּרְיָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1279/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 13:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.7/)

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וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח דָּוִ֛ד אֶל־תָּמָ֖ר הַבַּ֣יְתָה לֵאמֹ֑ר לְכִ֣י נָ֗א בֵּ֚ית אַמְנ֣וֹן אָחִ֔יךְ וַעֲשִׂי־ל֖וֹ הַבִּרְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent David to Tamar to the house (cmp) go please the.house of.Amnon brother your and make for him the food

*JPS 1917:* Then David sent home to Tamar, saying: 'Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.'

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[2 Samuel 13:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.10/)

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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אַמְנ֜וֹן אֶל־תָּמָ֗ר הָבִ֤יאִי הַבִּרְיָה֙ הַחֶ֔דֶר וְאֶבְרֶ֖ה מִיָּדֵ֑ךְ וַתִּקַּ֣ח תָּמָ֗ר אֶת־הַלְּבִבוֹת֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֔תָה וַתָּבֵ֛א לְאַמְנ֥וֹן אָחִ֖יהָ הֶחָֽדְרָה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Amnon to Tamar bring the food the chamber so that.I.may.eat from hand your and she.took Tamar (et) the cakes which she.had.made and she.brought.\[them\] to Amnon brother her to the chamber

*JPS 1917:* And Amnon said unto Tamar: 'Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat of thy hand.' And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.

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